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The BBC’s Pidgin service turned one this week and it’s clearly successfully tapping into a growing market. In Nigeria alone between three and five million people use Pidgin – a mix of English and local languages – as their first language, while a further 75 million have it as their second language. Edosa James Edionhan wonders if it isn’t time for Pidgin to be given official status across West Africa.
It’s rare for low and middle-income countries to have medical genetics services or even to collect basic genetic data. Shane C Quinonez explains how a mobile app is addressing the data gap in hospitals in Ethiopia and Ghana, and how that is influencing policy.
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Edosa James Edionhon, University of Benin
West African pidgins are unique, showing that they have come to stay no matter what some say or feel about them.
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Health + Medicine
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Shane C Quinonez, University of Michigan
There is a need for genetic services in low and middle-income countries.
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Environment + Energy
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Andrew Slaughter, University of Saskatchewan
African countries need to urgently develop coherent and strategic policies around water, land and agriculture.
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Politics + Society
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Willem Fourie, University of Pretoria
Despite a relatively slow start, South Africa can speed up its implementation of the SDGs.
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From our international editions
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Rachael Sharman, University of the Sunshine Coast
Telling your children you and your partner aren't going to be together anymore is a significant change in their lives.
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Sean Kelley, University of Essex
Merchants from Brazil, Cuba, North America and the British West Indies traded goods grown by slaves on plantations, for more slaves.
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Jon Shonk, University of Reading
Technology can only go so far in making sense of our vast and intricate atmosphere.
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